Wardrobe-fixture.



B. BRAGER.

WARDROBE FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. I3, 1915..

1, 168,]. 54;. Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

WITNESSES l I? llVI/E/VTOR W BBeyrnhard Bra er ATTORNEYS COLUMBIAPLANDGRAPXI COQWASIIINGTON, D. c,

BERNHARDT BRAGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WARDROBE-FIXTURE. v

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

Application filed January 13, 1915. Serial No. 1,993.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNHARD'I BRAGER, a subject of the Czar of Russia,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedWVardrobe-Fixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXactdescription.

This invention relates to wardrobe fixtures or devices for supportingcoat or other garment hangers, and has particular reference to devicesadapted to be connected to or suspended beneath the horizontal shelvesof wardrobes, clothes closets or the like, for supporting any suitablenumber, size or type of individual garment hangers.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, neatand satisfactory device of the character indicated which will hold aconsiderable number of individual garment hangers in such a manner thatany one of the garments supported thereon may be easily removed, themain portion of the device being rotatable in a horizontal plane.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter bemore fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forminga part of this specification in which like characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views, and'in which Figure 1 isa side elevation of a preferred embodiment of the invention shown inrelation to a supporting plate or shelf indicated in dotted lines; Fig.2 is a plan view of the same, dotted lines indicating a changed nositionof the bail; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the centralportion of the device on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The several parts of this device may be made of any suitable materials,and the rela tive sizes and proportions, as well as the general designof the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fullydescribed and specifically claimed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, I show at 10 a mainsupporting part or bail having a substantially horizontal lower bar 11to which any suitable size, form or type of coat or other garmenthangers (not shown) may be connected. The upper portion of the bail maybe variously designed, but, as shown herein and as made in a preferredmanner, the same includes a pair of substantially horizontal bars ormembers 12 connected to the outer ends of the bar 11 by verticalportions 18. Said bars 12 are shown arranged in alinement with eachother and having their ends extending into a substantially cylindricalhead 14 having a vertical axial bore or socket 16. Any suitable meansmay be employed to secure the adjacent ends of the bar 12 in the body14: such as soldering, brazing or the like, and I also prefer to use aplug 17 which makes a finish or closure for the socket 16 and may alsoclamp against the ends of the bars 12 to assist in holding them inposition.

At 18 I show a bolt having a head 19 seated within the socket 16, themain portion of the bolt projecting upwardly from the body and through aplate or washer 20 to which the bolt is secured rigidly by any suitablemeans such as a key or solder. In other words, the washer or plate 20,in its contact with the lower surface of the shelf S, prevents the boltfrom rotating and constitutes a stationary member upon which the head 1dand bail are free to rotate. The free end of the bolt is held in placeby suitable fastening means such as a nut 21 and washer 22 above theshelf. The bolt and its fastening means provide not only a free rotarymovement of the bail, but a wellbraced support therefor preventingtilting of the bail even though most of the weight supported thereby maybe at any time at or near one end of the bar 11.

I claim:

In a wardrobe fixture, the combination of a body having a vertical axialsocket, a bolt having a head located in said socket and upon which thebody is free to rotate around its axis, a plate rigidly secured to thebolt adjacent the head, means cooperating with the bolt and plate tosecure the same to a fixed elevated support, a bail car- In testimonywhereof I have signed my ried by said body including a lower horiname tothis specification in the presence zontal bar and a pair of upper barsextendof two subscribing Witnesses.

ing in alinenient-with each other-into the BERNHA-RDT BRAGER. body,and'apllig closing the lower end of Witnesses :1? 4 said socket andbearing against the adjacent 4 GEO. L. BEELER,

ends of said upper bars. v V v PHILIR D. RoLLHAUs.

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